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learnincurve posted:Did he just seriously call a reference to an old two Ronnies sketch about blowing raspberries at Queen Victoria backseat modding? I think that new study with pigs breathing from their assholes might explain it? 
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May 21, 2021 18:15
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One of my better friends is married to basically a turd of a human. He was boring at best before all this. I'm doomed to see him for the rest of my natural life because I'm godfather to his kid and his wife is legit one of my favorite people. He's been very vocal and skeptical about Covid and poo poo like that. Whatever. Annoying and causing me to shake my head. But whatever. But recently he's been posting pictures with "Impfung macht Frei" (Impfung=vaccine). And then today a yellow 6 sided star with "unimpfed" (unvaccinated) in like Hebrew script. I honestly am at a loss for words about it.
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May 21, 2021 18:15
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Fluffy Bunnies posted:this is the title of my new novel, a story about freedom and American spirit pursuing the truth. Well, no. SW Florida, 1994, had a family member in the peds oncology floor, and no, masks were NOT the norm. I frequently had to beg nurses to use them around her. And yeah, she died, because she caught chicken pox. And yeah, frankly, I'm a lot salty about how everybody else's loved ones are 'important' and 'essential' NOW, compared to when I was begging people to please take care back then. Guess when you're po' white trash and in the minority, your life doesn't matter as much.
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May 21, 2021 18:18
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Blitter posted:I think that new study with pigs breathing from their assholes might explain it? uh yeah can i get a username change please
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May 21, 2021 19:34
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bollig posted:One of my better friends is married to basically a turd of a human. He was boring at best before all this. I'm doomed to see him for the rest of my natural life because I'm godfather to his kid and his wife is legit one of my favorite people. He's been very vocal and skeptical about Covid and poo poo like that. Whatever. Annoying and causing me to shake my head. But whatever. But recently he's been posting pictures with "Impfung macht Frei" (Impfung=vaccine). And then today a yellow 6 sided star with "unimpfed" (unvaccinated) in like Hebrew script. I honestly am at a loss for words about it. Cool, your friend is married to a soon to be nazi (if he isn't already one). Congrats
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May 21, 2021 19:40
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bollig posted:One of my better friends is married to basically a turd of a human. He was boring at best before all this. I'm doomed to see him for the rest of my natural life because I'm godfather to his kid and his wife is legit one of my favorite people. He's been very vocal and skeptical about Covid and poo poo like that. Whatever. Annoying and causing me to shake my head. But whatever. But recently he's been posting pictures with "Impfung macht Frei" (Impfung=vaccine). And then today a yellow 6 sided star with "unimpfed" (unvaccinated) in like Hebrew script. I honestly am at a loss for words about it. Lemme guess what he does for a living--does he work with computers? I've also got a godson's-father-married-to-a-dear-friend like that (who works with computers) and in his case it's just a pathological need to always be the centre of attention and always have the last word. There is no greater suffering than whatever inconvenience he has at the moment and no conversation can take place without his input. Your guy seems like he's figured out the one weird trick to make everyone pay attention to him and when that stops working he'll just go back to whatever online crew of yes men he's found that will tell him that he is history's biggest martyr for missing the ice hockey playoffs or having to wait another 2 weeks to go to the club.
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May 21, 2021 19:56
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greazeball posted:Lemme guess what he does for a living--does he work with computers? I'm not going to say you're wrong about what type of personality this guy has. I just want to point out that, among all the people I've known with extravagant/narcissistic tendencies, only a single one has worked as a computer toucher. And he was mostly an instructor, at that. I think computers in general is not where extreme extroverts tend to congregate. I have found them mostly in the arts, sports and teaching, so far. Places where you are likely to get a lot of attention and the chance to have lots of people look up to you (if you do well). Unfortunately I think conspiracy theories can take hold in a lot of other types of personality, too.
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May 21, 2021 21:11
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greazeball posted:Lemme guess what he does for a living--does he work with computers? Definitely correct on the computer touching. But he is just a blob of a human, just sort of shows up and is boring as gently caress and is a general party pooper. And this pathology is definitely religion adjacent. I will say this, he has always seemed to keep his religiousness to himself in the sense that he doesn't evangelize or really try to force to on other people. And his wife seems to shut him down. Who knows. But I hate it.
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May 21, 2021 21:23
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ThatGirlAtThatShow posted:Well, no. SW Florida, 1994, had a family member in the peds oncology floor, and no, masks were NOT the norm. I frequently had to beg nurses to use them around her. And yeah, she died, because she caught chicken pox.  I'm sorry about your family member. I wonder if the mask thing is just military hospitals, then. Or maybe I've just been lucky with doctors being cautious? bollig posted:One of my better friends is married to basically a turd of a human. He was boring at best before all this. I'm doomed to see him for the rest of my natural life because I'm godfather to his kid and his wife is legit one of my favorite people. He's been very vocal and skeptical about Covid and poo poo like that. Whatever. Annoying and causing me to shake my head. But whatever. But recently he's been posting pictures with "Impfung macht Frei" (Impfung=vaccine). And then today a yellow 6 sided star with "unimpfed" (unvaccinated) in like Hebrew script. I honestly am at a loss for words about it. I've seen the impfung macht frei poo poo but holy poo poo doing that star of David poo poo is sinister.
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May 21, 2021 21:46
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Fluffy Bunnies posted:Sort of yes, sort of no. This is a good post. Seems like you’re maybe feeling a little bit better than earlier, and that makes me happy, You’ve been through a lot.
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May 21, 2021 22:19
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King Vidiot posted:All of this sarcasm plus, you know, the fact that as more and more people actually get vaccinated and the odds are recalculated the percentage might actually go up to like 99.8% or whatever. Could also go down but Confidence interval says: 
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May 21, 2021 22:27
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Azathoth Prime posted:This is a good post. This is the kind of stuff I posted all the time in the other thread and trying to be compassionate to a scared goon who sees the writing on the wall is a good thing. Shitloads of people are going to continue to die and nobody cares anymore because they want ice cream on their IHOP and they got mad that it was melted by the time they got home, so now they can go inside and boy are they going to. Hopefully I'm wrong about the death toll.
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May 21, 2021 22:29
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bollig posted:One of my better friends is married to basically a turd of a human. He was boring at best before all this. I'm doomed to see him for the rest of my natural life because I'm godfather to his kid and his wife is legit one of my favorite people. He's been very vocal and skeptical about Covid and poo poo like that. Whatever. Annoying and causing me to shake my head. But whatever. But recently he's been posting pictures with "Impfung macht Frei" (Impfung=vaccine). And then today a yellow 6 sided star with "unimpfed" (unvaccinated) in like Hebrew script. I honestly am at a loss for words about it. He ever seem a bit stunted? Does it make sense as teenage contrarianism?
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May 21, 2021 22:34
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Fluffy Bunnies posted:Sort of yes, sort of no. I forgot to thank you for this post. It helped me a lot. Thank you!
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May 21, 2021 22:46
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Gonna be at a grocery store tomorrow for he first time since masks became optional. Not exactly excited to see how quickly my area that had been 100% compliant on masks before completely gave up on it. I did had to stop by a hardware store earlier this week and 0% of the staff and only half the patrons were wearing them, but I dunno if hardware store is necessarily the best barometer of the public at large.
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May 21, 2021 22:58
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Revins posted:I've been fully vaccinated since the 4th and have yet to go maskless. it's weird how naked the thought of going out without one makes me feel. also there are still a lot of unvaxxed people and I want to keep up mask awareness because until a lot more people get their pokes its still a ways to go until corona is behind us you know how there are reports like "incidence of flu, tuberculosis, etc down 90% in 2020!!" well it's that
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May 21, 2021 23:06
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Looks like a bunch of states are starting to do the vaccine lottery thing like Ohio. Ohio went from gaining like .10% to .20% new vaccinations a day earlier this month to over .30% a day this week. I use those numbers since our portal updates by the date the shot was given and some places take a week, sometimes longer, to report so we won't see the actual day to days for a week or two. Friday last week appears to have been the biggest day since early April. Still not anywhere near the peak from when 16+ opened up, but a nice sorely needed bump.
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May 21, 2021 23:41
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wilderthanmild posted:Looks like a bunch of states are starting to do the vaccine lottery thing like Ohio. Come on, big money! If I win, I'm going to buy a emigration! Somewhere nice but not too hot.
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I went to a local Bevmo today (a nationwide liquor store chain for those not familiar). The door has a sign that says masks must be worn, and there's even a table beside it with another sign and a box of surgical masks for anyone that doesn't have a mask. I saw people walk in and out without masks on. At this point I think the stores have given up on masks even as they still "require" it.
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Fluffy Bunnies posted:This is the kind of stuff I posted all the time in the other thread and trying to be compassionate to a scared goon who sees the writing on the wall is a good thing. I'm hopeful that things will continue to get better, but like you I'm afraid a lot more people are going to die that don't have to. It's horrible and terribly upsetting, but there's not really anything I can do to change the big picture. I can do my part by getting vaccinated, wearing a mask, and not licking any of those tasty doorknobs, but beyond that I have to make my peace with the situation. I'll advocate where I can, but my ability to change even my family's minds is limited. So I try not to dwell on it, and protect my own mental health as best I can. The whole world is going to dealing with PTSD from this for many years to come. I've had it incredibly good - well paying stable job that I can do almost entirely remote, good working conditions at home, etc. - but I’ve still been effectively under house arrest for the last 14 months, and it has definitely taken a toll. Azathoth Prime fucked around with this message at 01:17 on May 22, 2021 |
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May 22, 2021 01:06
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Kragger99 posted:This might come across as doomposting, but it's a serious question. I have absolutely no idea how any of this will play out in the long-term (nobody does) but it's important to remember that unchecked COVID spread and pushback against masks etc is mostly a Western thing. Community transmission of COVID is still considered an unacceptable policy by a lot of governments around the world, most importantly China. If COVID and its variants come to be accepted as another type of seasonal flu in some parts of the world, that doesn't necessarily hold true for others, and that's going to have impacts on international travel and trade.
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I work for a small business that recently announced that anyone who provides proof of vaccination to HR will be allowed to go maskless in our offices. Overall the company and all my coworkers have taken covid very seriously, everyone has been masked, maintained distance including re-arranging of certain spaces to allow for distance, allowing remote work for those who had jobs where it was possible, etc. I'm vaccinated and will still be working mostly remotely, but when I do go into the office I'm not gonna be sure what to do. On one hand, I still want to wear a mask, on the other hand I don't want others around me to have to worry about me potentially being unvaccinated, or an anti-vaxxer because I'm still wearing a mask. Anyone else in a similar position and if so how are you handling it?
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May 22, 2021 01:18
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Went to the store and only 60% of people had masks including staff. Kiss your bitch asses goodbye OPEN BIDEN
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J posted:I work for a small business that recently announced that anyone who provides proof of vaccination to HR will be allowed to go maskless in our offices. Overall the company and all my coworkers have taken covid very seriously, everyone has been masked, maintained distance including re-arranging of certain spaces to allow for distance, allowing remote work for those who had jobs where it was possible, etc. I'm vaccinated and will still be working mostly remotely, but when I do go into the office I'm not gonna be sure what to do. On one hand, I still want to wear a mask, on the other hand I don't want others around me to have to worry about me potentially being unvaccinated, or an anti-vaxxer because I'm still wearing a mask. Anyone else in a similar position and if so how are you handling it? Not in a similar situation but I don't think the anti-vaxxers would be wearing a mask in the first place. But if anyone asks, you can just tell them that you're more comfortable with it on for now?
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Went to the grocery store tonight. Much better than the trip to the hardware store. 100% masked other than one guy who was wearing his on his chin. There was a group of young girls walking in front of me where one of them wasn't wearing a mask and loudly complaining "If someone says something I'll put it on." But before they even got in her friends started pointing out everyone is wearing them and she put one on. I guarantee this is not the norm, especially not in Ohio, but nice that my area is still doing okay for now.
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J posted:I work for a small business that recently announced that anyone who provides proof of vaccination to HR will be allowed to go maskless in our offices. Overall the company and all my coworkers have taken covid very seriously, everyone has been masked, maintained distance including re-arranging of certain spaces to allow for distance, allowing remote work for those who had jobs where it was possible, etc. I'm vaccinated and will still be working mostly remotely, but when I do go into the office I'm not gonna be sure what to do. On one hand, I still want to wear a mask, on the other hand I don't want others around me to have to worry about me potentially being unvaccinated, or an anti-vaxxer because I'm still wearing a mask. Anyone else in a similar position and if so how are you handling it? That's the awkward thing about deciding to stick with masking up, and I wish there was an easy way to let people know I am vaccinated. At this point I am planning to keep wearing a mask not for me, but for other people. I'm not a risk, and I don't feel at risk, but people like the cashiers and restaurant staff don't know that. If I can make them feel more comfortable then the tiny discomfort of wearing my very nice mask is a very small price to pay.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:That's the awkward thing about deciding to stick with masking up, and I wish there was an easy way to let people know I am vaccinated. beau ties of vermont got you covered 
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Please don’t wear a cloth mask for personal protection.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:At this point I am planning to keep wearing a mask not for me, but for other people. I'm not a risk, and I don't feel at risk, but people like the cashiers and restaurant staff don't know that. If I can make them feel more comfortable then the tiny discomfort of wearing my very nice mask is a very small price to pay. 
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Yeah I technically don't *have* to wear one under CDC guidelines anymore, but I work with people who are not fully vaccinated and especially when I am going into stores and such, I don't know if the people working there are vaccinated so I don't want to accidentally get them sick.
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Platystemon posted:Please don’t wear a cloth mask for personal protection. Mine is a cloth mask with replaceable N95 filters inside, so it's actually some level of protection. It's a bit moot since I'm fully vaccinated, but I've been sticking with the filters anyway. That reminds me, I should order more just to have more in stock. If wildfires are bad this year I'm going to deploy my masks for that, too.
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It’s weird to be feeling hope again and then receive news that an old friend died (“in his sleep”, I hope) while at home during his COVID quarantine because he caught it and didn’t make it. They found him a couple days later when he didn’t show back up for work after quarantine, and no one went to visit because he was in quarantine.
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drat, sorry for your loss.
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Electric Sugar posted:It’s weird to be feeling hope again and then receive news that an old friend died (“in his sleep”, I hope) while at home during his COVID quarantine because he caught it and didn’t make it. They found him a couple days later when he didn’t show back up for work after quarantine, and no one went to visit because he was in quarantine. Oh that’s awful I’m so sorry for your loss.
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Fluffy Bunnies posted:
He had some challenges, but he’d gotten into a good job and he had a great group of long-term friends (he was very loved, which makes the way he was found so rotten). Roll some dice with your friends when you can.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Mine is a cloth mask with replaceable N95 filters inside, so it's actually some level of protection. It's a bit moot since I'm fully vaccinated, but I've been sticking with the filters anyway. Beau Ties of Vermont masks have pockets or whatever in them for filters! During the pandemic if I had to go out I wore an n95 mask or a 3m respirator after I got one in like September? But since I've been vaccinated I just wear these nice cloth masks from the vermont people. I am probably gonna keep doing it for a while in spite of the CDC guidance just to be a positive role model for others. Got a couple paisley ones and some different colored geometric ones that look like necktie patterns, like this one  the beau tie place also makes and sells ties, bow ties and pocket squares in the same fabrics, but its summer now and too hot to dress nice and that much coordination is a bit much anyway they have a zillion designs and they are made in vermont and its a very nice cotton fabric, beautiful patterns like silk neckwear, a lot of floral stuff, and fun stuff too and only like 12 bux each, highly recommend hakimashou fucked around with this message at 06:09 on May 22, 2021 |
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0.03% chance: Getting coronavirus after being vaccinated incredibly rare in L.A. County https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-05-21/breakthrough-coronavirus-infections-of-vaccinated-people-exceedingly-rare-in-l-a-county quote:It is exceedingly rare for fully vaccinated Los Angeles County residents to still get infected by the coronavirus, according to a new analysis by the Department of Public Health.
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